I just want to live a good life

Chapter 387 Supervise her to finish eating

"Baozhu, I want to visit your flower garden tomorrow to see what other treasures are hidden in it."

"There are some surprises that were originally planned to be brought out in a few days. If you go and see them tomorrow..."

Baozhu was a little embarrassed.

Su Nuan smiled and said, "Go and see it tomorrow and you'll be surprised tomorrow!"

The surprises in the flower garden are also limited to plants, but it is rare to see green in winter, so it would be a surprise to see some flowers.

Su Nuan rarely looks forward to anything.

The next day, when breakfast was served, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived as expected.

The kitchen sent over another table full of radishes, vegetable buns stuffed with radish, fried dumplings stuffed with radish, a few pieces of radish cakes, and a dish of stir-fried radish with shredded pork.

Mu Yunting really wanted to flip the table. She had just said yesterday that she would not be bullied again, but today someone treated her harshly in terms of food.

This time he couldn't bear it any longer, so he sent someone to drive Kang Dahong out of the house.

There's no way. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't eat radishes. The sight of radishes makes him feel sick. So even if the radish dumplings are each cooked golden and crispy, he doesn't think they are a good thing.

Although Su Nuan didn't like radishes very much, radish cakes were quite to her liking. While Mu Yunting was losing his temper, she ate two pieces.

After a while, the guards at the door of Lanyue Pavilion came with food boxes. This was the breakfast prepared by the kitchen for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

When the food box was opened, Su Nuan couldn't help but curl her lips at the sight. The Crown Prince's breakfast was much more exquisite.

Mu Yunting pushed a bowl of fish maw stewed with chicken in front of Su Nuan, but chose a bowl of red bean sweet porridge and started eating it in silence.

When the two were almost finishing their breakfast, they heard crying outside. As soon as they heard the voice, they knew it was Kang Dahong.

Mu Yunting didn't want to see him and ordered his men to kick him out, but was stopped by Su Nuan.

Su Nuan originally wanted to do something, but now things are not going as she expected. The problem lies with Kang Dahong, and she wants to know why.

I clearly warned him, why did he still do such a stupid thing?

She wants to meet Kang Dahong.

So Kang Dahong was brought to Su Nuan and Mu Yunting.

As soon as he came up, Kang Dahong knelt down with a plop. He subconsciously wanted to kowtow to the Crown Prince and beg for mercy, but after hesitating for a moment, he turned to Su Nuan and cried, "Concubine Xia, I am innocent! Please help me."

Su Nuan said: "Just tell me, I didn't wrongly accuse you."

"I didn't cook you radish and cabbage. These meals were not made by me. I was wronged."

"Oh? How do you prove it?"

"Yesterday for dinner I made spicy chicken, steamed sea bass, charcoal grilled pig's trotters and a dish of stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots. This morning I made cake, cheese, steamed meat buns and tofu pudding for her, all of which are her favorites."

"Really? Then why didn't I see these meals? Can anyone prove that you cooked these dishes?"

"This... No one saw me doing it, for fear that they would steal my skills. So I drove everyone out when I was doing this. I prepared all the dishes myself."

This seems like something Kang Dahong would do.

"Since you prepare all the dishes yourself, where are the people who deliver them?"

"I asked my little apprentice to deliver it. It must be because I didn't teach him the dishes I learned from the Empress, so he held a grudge and replaced the food I cooked."

"Why not call someone over and confront them and we'll know."

Su Nuan was not used in the subsequent interrogation process; Mu Yunting asked the guards to do it.

Kang Dahong's apprentice took money from others and asked him to give radishes to Concubine Xia at every meal.

This guy didn't dare to do it at first, but later when he heard Kang Dahong complaining about Concubine Xia, he knew that Kang Dahong had some resentment towards Concubine Xia, so he started to change the dishes.

Those dishes made with radishes were not made casually; he put a lot of effort into them. He wanted to make the radish banquet pay for it, but he didn't want Concubine Xia to find it unpalatable.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to have both.

Su Nuan had no interest in Kang Dahong, the little disciple. She was interested in who gave him the money and asked him to deliver the radish banquet.

The young apprentice pointed out a servant girl, and the servant girl pointed out a maid in Furong Courtyard. The maid girl admitted that it was the young apprentice she bribed. The reason was that she was angry that Concubine Xia gave her radishes to eat while her master was under house arrest with His Highness.

At this point, the case was clear. Although the maid took the blame, it was obvious that it was Dong Jingshu who ordered it.

The young apprentice was beaten with twenty boards and driven out of the Prince's Mansion.

Then Mu Yunting gave Kang Dahong a task, that is, he must make a plate of radish for Dong Jingshu at every meal and supervise her to finish it.

This task was extremely difficult, and Kang Dahong took on the next task with a worried look on his face.

The next few days were unusually quiet in the Prince's Mansion. Even Dong Jingshu, who was punished to eat radishes, did not make any movement.

Su Nuan was a little depressed. She thought that after she came back, she reduced the expenses of several masters in the Prince's Mansion and Xun Zheng, and Dong Jingshu and Xun Zheng would react. But it turned out that both of them were very calm.

The plan to use this incident to cause trouble for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has temporarily failed.

But she was not idle either. As the Queen Mother's birthday was approaching, she planned to take this opportunity to make another fortune.

Before, when the UBS Building reopened, she earned more than 10,000 taels of silver from Dong Jingshu alone. Although she no longer has the UBS Building this time, she still has her own silver building, and Chu Qi, a master of imitation.

She wanted to make her silver shop famous by taking advantage of the Empress Dowager's birthday.

I have been busy modifying drawings and selecting materials these days.

It was not difficult for her to draw the blueprint, but she was stumped by choosing the materials. It was not that she did not have the ability to distinguish good from bad, but she could not negotiate the price.

This is an important step in controlling costs. If we can’t lower the price of raw materials, how can we talk about profits?

Just when she was frowning, Chu Qi mentioned someone to her, the former shopkeeper Chen of UBS.

He has been in this business for many years and is very familiar with the raw material market. He has channels to obtain low-priced and high-quality materials.

So Su Nuan went to South City in person and invited Manager Chen to her shop.

Her shop was located on Zhusheng Street. Ever since Fusheng and her small shopkeepers left, the street had lost its former prosperity.

When Shopkeeper Chen arrived at Su Nuan's silver shop called "Ruyilou", his mouth almost turned up to the sky.

"My Lady, your shop is not good. No matter how good your goods are, they can't be sold at a high price in a place like this. Besides, it's so deserted here."

Shopkeeper Chen's temperament has changed a little since he left UBS. In the past, he never straightened his back when he saw Su Nuan, but now not only does his back stand straighter, he also speaks with much more confidence.

Su Nuan asked Shopkeeper Chen: "What suggestions do you have?"

"Do you need any advice? Change the place!"

"Change to where?"

"Hengsi Street! It would be best if we opened it in the UBS Building, so that the Second Prince can see how we can make money without him holding us back."